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Dear Flickr friends as artists I believe that it is our duty to encourage and promote peace, diversity, unity, understanding, tolerance, equality, love, friendship, diplomacy, encouragement, and support for everyone. We need to help one another, each and every one of us are important we need to drop discrimination and educate all of our children to love one another regardless of their race, gender, caste, age, sexual orientation, disability, or religion. Let's flood Flickr with positivity, love, and caring in 2021!
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75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
There must never be anything so horrible in human history!!!
As long as I live I will fight against racism, all kinds of discrimination and persecution.
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If we hate someone, we hate something in his image, which sits in ourselves. What is not in ourselves, this excited us not.
Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf.
Hermann Hesse, Demian, The Collected Works Volume 5
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"When the war was over, the soldier came home. But he had no bread. Then he saw a man who had bread. He beat him dead / / You can not kill somebody, said the judge. / / Why not? asked the soldier."
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"All people have a sewing machine, a radio, a refrigerator and a telephone. What do we do now? Asked the factory owners . / / bombs , said the inventor . / / war , said the General . / / If there is no other way, said the factory owners. "
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"Oh, we were looking for you, God , in every ruin, every shell-hole, every night . We have called you God, we have yelled out for you, cried, cursed! Where were you then, dear God?"
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" Responsibility is not just a word , a chemical formula, is white human flesh transformed in the dark earth. We can not let people die for an empty word. Somewhere we must have our responsibility. The dead - not answer. God - not answer. But the survivors ask.
"When they tell tomorrow command , you should not water pipes and no pots to make more - but steel helmets and machine guns , then there is only one choice: Say NO! ".
Wolfgang Borchert, „Lesebuchgeschichten“, in: „Draußen vor der Tür“, (Outside the door) , ISBN 3-499-10170-X, 1956,
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The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm distinguishes between two types of hate:
Reactive Hate
It is always the result of a deep injury or a painful situation, it is powerless against, because they can not change on their own. Erich Fromm writes: "In reactive hate I mean a response that due to an attack on my life, my safety, my ideals, or to another person, whom I love and with whom I am identified.
Reactive hatred always presupposes that someone has a positive outlook on life to other people and ideals. Who is strong life-affirming, will react accordingly if his life is threatened."
Source: Wikipedia, German, Articles: Hate
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FIRST THEY CAME – BY PASTOR MARTIN NIEMÖLLER
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Source: www.hmd.org.uk
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|| Bread || Wolfgang Borchert || Wolfgang Borchert - Quotes || Hate || Discrimination || Rubble literature || Martin Niemöller ||
The discrimination and division that is currently practiced on the basis of lies makes me very, very sad.
Please do not forget that we all belong to humanity.
*Working Towards a Better World
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Love is the Force of Life & the World Cannot Be Without It
May love overcome all the hate and finally join us together so we may work as a worldwide team. We should tear down all the barriers, race, religious, sexual orientation and all discrimination it is time to live together in peace!!! We should and can make it happen!
As of today, people in Bavaria who do not have gene therapy substances administered to them are largely excluded from social life by the so-called 2G rule;
and this, although there is no difference to the syringe recipients in terms of transmissibility of the Covid-19 disease.
Some speak of 'vaccination apartheid' and discrimination -
some compare these rules (the exclusion of a group of people) with events in the period around 1938.
In my opinion, they are right.
All of whom embrace the international feeling with a gender equal world, a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #InspireInclusion as quoted from IWD 2024
www.internationalwomensday.com
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Let’s Support UN Women's Orange the World: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
📅 November 25 - December 10
Join us in raising awareness and taking action to end gender-based violence. This global movement, led by UN Women, calls for collective action to stand up for the rights and dignity of every individual.
🌍This Year’s Theme:
Every 10 minutes a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to end violence against women.
🌍 Take Action:
- Educate yourself and others about gender-based violence.
- Show your support by wearing orange, posting on social media, and using the hashtag #OrangetheWorld.
- Advocate for policies that protect all people from violence and discrimination.
Together, we can create a world free from violence and discrimination. Let’s raise our voices and show our commitment to this important cause.
#OrangeTheWorld #16DaysOfActivism #EndGenderBasedViolence #SecondLifeActivism #SLForChange #SLSupportForWomen #OrangeTheWorldSL #GenderEqualityInSL #SLAgainstGBV #UniteAgainstViolence #SLForUNWomen #VirtualActivism #SLInclusion #EmpowerInSecondLife
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Wind does not discriminate—it touches everyone, everything. He liked that about wind.” -
Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” - W.B. Yeats,
The Land of Heart's Desire
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair” - Kahlil Gibran,
The Prophet
I love the sound of the trees in the breeze. If the forest is so clearly musical, why can’t it play the guitar while I sing Nirvana covers?” - Jarod Kintz
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. - Evel Knieve
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward
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There is a fascinating story to this work, the pelican and the gull are inseparable friends, I am quite impressed, I watched them for a long time playing happily together!
This is the second in my new series, one which recognizes my friends here on Flickr. I wish to thank you for your friendship and your support! Some of you I work with, some of you I have worked with, some of you have given me opportunities and the rest of you my wonderful friends share an infinity with art and an ability to share our love, ideas and support thank you all!
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the little girl with red ribbon on hair watching cultural show from a distance..... her father is so poor that he can't take off from his business (selling handmade cone ice-cream ) when all people are enjoying the festival. but she wants to join the festival so he take her with him on the place of his business rather near the stage.
Captured from SUST' Sylhet in Pohela Boishak (Bangla New Year festival)
Still a common sight on many routes in Switzerland are the push-pull compositions of EW IV type coaches and class Re 460 locos. Nevertheless, the days of these consists are counted as they run afoul of the stipulations of the Disability Discrimination Act (BehiG in German, LHand in French) for not allowing step-free boarding and alighting. Thus, when the transition period ends at the end of this year, these consists can only be used in a limited fashion - essentially only on routes shared with other, step-free consists. In light of all this, the SBB are planning to decommission a large part of the fleet next year. Here, however, Re 460 024 is still serenely hauling its EW IV consist on an Interregio train Basel SBB - Zürich HB, as cirrus clouds render the light somewhat diffuse. Zeihen, 26-06-2023.
Breed: Australian Shepard
Activity: Natural Trials
Natural Trials are activities based on scent work and innate aptitudes.
They are practiced in large open spaces and offer dogs the opportunity to use their natural gifts: scenting ability and sense of smell.
Originating in Sweden, Natural Trials consist of a series of exercises covering basic training, scent discrimination, object retrieval, person tracking, and trailing
BATTLES over religious symbols in Britain continued when a Christian woman took on British Airways over her cross necklace and a Muslim teaching assistant defended her stance on wearing the veil.
The debate has amplified in the week since British leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw appealed to Muslim women to remove their veils to improve face-to-face communication and prevent separate cultures from taking root in Britain.
Rifts over the veil deepened at the weekend, as opposition politicians accused Muslim leaders of encouraging "voluntary apartheid" by forming closed societies.
The Conservative Party's shadow home secretary, David Davis, said Britain risked social and religious divisions so profound that society's very foundations, such as the freedom of speech, would be "corroded".
Britain's Race Minister also waded in, saying a 24-year-old Muslim teacher who refused to either remove her veil while teaching young children or to work with men, breached sex discrimination rules.
In this latest incident, the teacher, Aishah Azmi, was suspended after complaints from parents that their children could not understand her, especially as many had English as a second language.
The school principal that suspended Mrs Azmi reasoned she did not wear a veil when she was interviewed for the job and face-to-face communication was essential for teaching English as a bilingual support worker.
Mrs Azmi defended her veil as a moral necessity and said to deny her the self-respect and dignity it afforded was discriminatory against Muslim women.
The Sunday Mirror quoted Race and Faith Minister Phil Woolas as saying: "She should be sacked. She has put herself in a position where she can't do her job. She is denying the right of children to a full education … she is taking away the right of men to work in schools."
His comments came as about 60 Muslims demonstrated against Mr Straw, calling him a "Christian fascist".
Mr Straw had said the veil was "a visible statement of separation and difference", not required by Islamic faith.
As a matter of routine, he would ask his Blackburn constituents to show their face while in meetings with him.
Meanwhile, Christian groups were defending the "right" of a Heathrow airport check-in worker to display a necklace with a silver cross the size of a five-cent coin.
British Airways does not permit a cross to be visible, but allows Muslims and Sikhs to wear turbans, hijabs and religious bangles because they "cannot be concealed".
Nadia Eweida, 55, said she had been forced to take unpaid leave over the cross, which was a "silent witness" of her faith in Jesus.
The dispute arose a day after she attended the airline's "diversity training" that taught tolerance towards religions.
Stories of people wanting to protect or protest against a particular expression of faith inundate the British media every day.
A married mother in Rotherham, who had a contraceptive method fail, was aghast that a Muslim-owned pharmacy was allowed to cite religious beliefs in denying her the morning-after pill.
And the Royal Mail wrote an apology to a Muslim woman wanting to post a parcel after staff in Penwortham, Lancashire, refused to serve her unless she removed her veil.
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We need to all fight for our children to grow up in a world where racism is not prevalent, where lives are not limited and where people are truly judged on their character and not the color of their skin. It boggles my mind sometimes how far from Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream we still are. We have a congress that wants to take away health care, some of these same congressman are saying they honor Martin Luther King Jr. today even though King said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And we have a president who says the most racist things that one can possibly imagine any political leader ever saying. Where does that leave us in the world today? That leaves us, no matter what our race is, to not be silent and to be vocal in the streets. We must stand up for this next generation of beautiful children to have access to a quality public education, to quality health care, to highly skilled jobs, to in all accounts the pursuit of happiness, to an environment that has stabilized and to liberty.
Sometimes, it is really difficult for me, even though I am white, to not despair myself. I feel like our nation has taken steps backwards not forwards with Trump and all the beautiful children I help, regardless of race, I want them to have a life that entails all of these things. But, I also truly believe that if King were alive today, he would encourage people to not give up the fight. We have to remember, as Americans, our country is only worthwhile if we fight for the best it can be and can offer all of our immigrants and citizens both.
Dr. King also said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." We should all make an effort to be kinder, to listen to each other, to be compassionate and to reveal insight and light as a counter to arguments that support discrimination. We are at a time when we all have to fight for human rights. Protests were even less popular during Martin Luther King's time period and he gave his life fighting for justice. Let us be inspired by his bravery not just today but in all days going forwards.
Discrimination has come to have such negative connotations. When... really... it's a quality we couldn't live without. All things are not created equal. That includes us. And... really... it would be ridiculous to think that we... subjective creatures that we are... could feel the same about everyone and everything.
Discriminating simply means (or can simply mean) differentiating among different things. Is it bad to love apples and not pears? Is it wrong to prefer silk to polyester? Or chocolate to vanilla?
What about vertebrates over invertebrates? Or furry things over slippery ones? Or things with faces over things without faces? Or mammals or over insects?
I'll come clean. I discriminate against slugs, snails and caterpillars. Most other critters I can find redeeming qualities in. These guys? Ugh.
Although...
I've read that slugs are the only things that eat dog poop. And I guess that's a good thiing, considering the number of people in my neighbourhood who don't (grrrr) clean up after their dogs.
Um... go slugs go? And what about the snails? Surely they have some redeeming quality. Oh... I know. The shells.
But those are only good once the snails are dead. Meantime... sorry snail lovers... this photo totally makes me cringe.
Whirling Dervishes, Sema Seb-i Arus, The Wedding Day
Sema is part of the inspiration of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi as well as of Turkish custom, history, beliefs and culture. It is what we do as a form of remembrance of God.
From a scientific viewpoint we witness that contemporary science definitely confirms that the fundamental condition of our existence is to revolve. There is no object, no being which does not revolve and the shared similarity among beings is the revolution of the electrons, protons and neutrons in the atoms, which constitute the structure of each of them. As a consequence of this similarity, everything revolves and man carries on his live, his very existence by means of the revolution in the atoms, structural stones of his body, by the revolution of his blood, by his coming from the earth and return to it, by his revolving with earth itself.
However, all of these are natural, unconscious revolutions. But man is the possessor of a mind and intelligence which distinguishes him from and makes him superior to other beings. Thus the "whirling dervish" or Semazen causes the mind to participate in the shared similarity and revolution of all other beings… Otherwise, the Sema ceremony represents a mystical journey of man's spiritual ascent through mind and love to "Perfect". Turning towards the truth, his growth through love, desert his ego, find the truth and arrive to the "Perfect", then he return from this spiritual journey as a man who reached maturity and a greater perfection, so as to love and to be of service to the whole of creation, to all creatures without discrimination of believes, races, classes and nations.
Front page illustration for 7 Days, a children's newspaper.
It goes with an article about the violence against Jewish people:
there has been a recent growth of hate crimes in Holland, and especially Amsterdam apparently.
Jewish men are afraid to wear their Kippah since it seems to make them an easy target.
Very sad development and worrying given the fact that the Netherlands used to be very liberal.
Hence for example Amsterdam's nickname 'the Gay Capital".
Not any more though..
I was told to not make the boys on the left unrecognizable, to avoid stigmatization of yet another ethnic minority.
Still given the statistics that seems a little odd to me.
As the Moon and Sun, or Water and Oil cannot be Friends, now I know.............
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This is a poem I adore... ,
I dedicate this poem to my grandmother who died in a faraway country, but by my side
It was one of her favorite poems!
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"Life, death, death, life; the words have led for ages
Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed
Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages
Are opened, liberating truths undreamed.
Life only is, or death is life disguised,
Life a short death until by Life we are surprised.
All Nature is taught in radiant ways to move,
All beings are in myself embraced.
O fiery boundless Heart of joy and love,
How art thou beating in a mortal’s breast !
It is Thy rapture flaming through my nerves
And all my cells and atoms thrill with Thee ;
My body thy vessel is and only serves
As a living wine-cup of Thy ecstasy.
I am a centre of Thy golden light
And I its vast and vague circumference,
Thou art my soul great, luminous and white
And Thine my mind and will and glowing sense.
Thy spirit’s infinite breath I feel in me;
My life is a throb of Thy eternity".
Sri Aurobindo
The Organization of Cape Verdean Women (OMCV) in partnership with the Cape Verdean Institute for Gender Equality and Equity (ICIEG) and other partners announced on Sunday, March 7th in the City of Assomada, the main commemorative event of International Women's Day under the motto Djuntu na Paz, nu kombati violênsia na Cabo Verde (Together in Peace, in the fight against violence in Cape Verde).
The opening ceremony was co-chaired by His Excellency the Prime Minister, Jose Maria Neves and the UN System Resident Coordinator, Mrs. Petra Lantz and was also attended by the US Ambassador, Government representatives, and representatives of local municipalities, among others.
Celebrating International Women's Day we know that we join thousands of people around the world, to celebrate a date that marked the world 100 years ago. It is celebrated worldwide this year under the motto Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All.
At the same time, the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is celebrated. In 1995 during the IV World Conference on Women, world leaders committed themselves to promote equality, development and peace to women around the world.
The Beijing Declaration remains as current as it was 15 years ago: as long as women are not liberated from poverty and injustice all the objectives for which we work – peace, security and sustainable development - will be threatened. There are several examples of progress, although gender stereotyping and discrimination based on gender persist in all cultures and communities.
The International Women's Day is an opportunity to make a critical review of the successes achieved over the past 15 years, which are not few, and to take stock on how to achieve what is missing.
In Cape Verde a lot has been done since the independence in favor of women, allowing to create a favorable environment for increased participation of women, and to contribute to the development of the country. Great results have been achieved with emphasis on education, health, and political participation of women over the last years. Highlighting at the government level, among the ministers, eight are women.
However, it cannot be said that women have achieved the same equality as men, to emphasize the important achievements in favor of women in Cape Verde and thereby stimulate and continue this struggle. Because social ills still persist, such as unemployment, extreme poverty which affects mostly female heads of households, and the violence against women, that are in flagrant contradiction with the promise contained in the Charter of the United Nations "to promote the social progress and better standards of life in a broader concept of freedom".
The consequences of the violence for women and girls as well as to their families, communities and societies are incalculable. Too often the crimes are unpunished and the criminals go free. In this context the States have the responsibility to protect women and punish their aggressors, ensuring a continuing improvement of judicial processes.
With increasing frequency, men manifest themselves against this blot in our society. It is not easy to change mentalities and habits that endure for generations. It is a task for all – individuals, organizations and governments. We should work together to declare, loud and clear at the highest level, that violence against women will not be tolerated, whatever form it takes, the context in which it occurs and the circumstances that surround it.
Recognizing this fact, the African Union at the Conference of 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that was celebrated in March 2010 in New York, launched the African Women's Decade 2010-2020, reaffirming the commitment assumed since the Dakar and Beijing conferences and the resolutions on gender equality and women empowerment taken by the Assembly of the African Union, to accelerate the achievement of results set out in the Millennium Development Goals.
*Ministry of Youth and President of the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Work, Family and Social Unity, Ministry of Education and Sports, Ministry of Environment, Rural Development and Marine Resources, Secretary of State Adjunct of Prime Minister.
A bus stop advert and a view through a shop window brings these desires into one
image. Happy Valentine's
Is this not a small world that we all live in? Much too small to waste room with hate, belief of superiority, or discrimination.
London, Ohio
This is 2020 yet based on the recent events, it feels like it's the 1800s. As I have commented on some previous posts, there are many things that are wrong in our modern societies. What we saw happening in Minneapolis is not an isolated event. Throughout the years we've witnessed racial discrimination, we've seen people being mistreated based on the color of their skin. This issue is not political and as such racism should be condemned by everybody, no matter where they stand politically. I know that this is not a US thing only, however it feels like here it's happening more than anywhere else in the world. It feels like this society was built on "crooked" foundations. And maybe it was, as slavery played a key role, mostly on the Southern States, on how this country evolved through the years and became a world power. But this is not 1874, this is not a sugar plantation in Louisiana. We heard the words "I can't breath" in 2014 when Eric Garner was choked to death by a NYPD officer. 6 years later not much has changed. We heard the exact same words as George Floyd was suffocated by a Minneapolis PD officer. The names and the places don't matter, as history is repeating and innocent lives are lost. Sadly, in the name of these lives people are acting in a way that generates more hatred. Looting and setting Police Departments on fire is not the solution. It will only make things worse and inevitably, we will see more people die. When will this end?
altered book spread "start" to be sent out for Library collaboration.
if u haven't got one yet- hang in there its a comin'...around the mountain when it comes
It is so easy to say I love you or we love you. First of all we need to treat each other equal and we hope for the world of no discrimination.
It is my personal experience that I have seen people reacting so differently when you are NOT wearing a mask during this period of pandemic. In some other communities on the other hand I read on the news some people discriminate against people who are wearing masks and view the mask wearing people as sick persons.
There are so many reasons a person is wearing or not wearing a mask. And this should not be reason for you to treat them differently.
I may be framing the picture a little too tight. I want to remind that there are two persons in the scene. One wearing mask and another one does not.
Have a good Easter weekend!
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Grants Not Loans Protest, in the city of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom. Date unknown, but circa October 1987 to circa June 1989.*
* The reason for this date range will be explained below.
About the photographs.
Those are British police motorcyclists whom have been assigned to escort the college students carrying out a peaceful march from the college to city centre which is approximately one mile in length, down a main road.
As those photographs were taken in the late 1980s, at that time they were wearing dark blue biker’s leather jumpsuits and only had bright yellow strips across their body. It was long before the full yellow jackets became common with British police motorcyclists.
Note the strip on the side of the bikes, below the word POLICE. In that era, British police cars were all white with an orange horizonal strip across the side of the cars, as well as motorbikes. This style was often nicknamed as the sandwich jam style, before the police replaced them with a blue and yellow chequered pattern all over the side of the vehicles, that were later known as the Battenburg markings.
The first photograph shows three of the police officers waiting for the start of the march, they were seen at a car park off Venns Lane in Hereford, which is now used as a private hospital called Nuffield Health Hospital. Local journalists were also at this car park, mostly getting ready.
The second photograph shows the police motorcyclist in front of the students. I can’t be sure if this police motorcyclist is one of the three seen in the other photograph, or is another officer. Here he is seen slowly riding his motorbike, with the students behind him, all going through Commercial Street, a mostly pedestrian only street, in city centre.
I took those photographs with my Minolta X-700 35mm film SLR camera and a standard 50mm lens, which I often bring with me when going to college. The film used was Ilford FP4.
What is this all about?
In 1985, while attending my last year at a deaf school, I told the hearing teacher, the visiting career advisor, and my family that I want to do photography as a job, and would like to apply for a proper college course studying photography.
But in those days, there were still discrimination against deaf people, and they advised me that I can’t do photography as a job because of my being deaf. I attempted to fight for my rights, and somehow ended up with a college course that is better than nothing.
This being a two days college course studying graphic design, with a three days work experience with a professional photographer as an assistant, and I started around September 1987 until around July 1989, as it was a two years course.
On that day: I was in my class at college, when I noticed an activity going on outside. As it was the later 1980s, there was no Twitter, no Facebook, nothing like that. Usually news travel by printing leaflets or by word of mouth, being the only deaf person in a class full of hearing people, nobody thought to tell me.
I went to my tutor and enquiry what is going on, and my tutor, thankfully being open minded to my being deaf, explained what it is all about. At that time the British government, under then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had decided that funding to help students should be done by means of loans, which would need to be paid back by the students when they leave college and get jobs, not by grants. But students all over the UK are not happy with this, and are protesting against this idea.
That is why they’re saying ”Grants Not Loans.”
As I really want to do photography, not graphic design, I took this as an opportunity to practise my photography, by doing my first photojournalism kind of photography. Up until that time, most of the photography I did were landscape, street photography, still life, friends, and so on. I explained this to my tutor, and thankfully my tutor gave me permissions to leave class to cover this event.
I asked if I could have some more rolls of film, and the tutor agreed, so I grabbed as many as I could carry, and was off. I was lucky to find that it was only starting to build up, and that the march had not started yet.
I walked with the protesters all the way down the main road, from the college and into the city centre, which took about half hour or thereabouts, taking photos of the event, until reaching the end of the march.
After that, I went back to college, later I developed and printed my own photographs. Many years later, I decided to scan those prints using my Bother multi-faction printer/fax/scanner, and saved the images in my computer.
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There's no discrimination down around Trafalgar Square.
During our walkabout we came across a different sort of crossing light, this is one of them.
I'm guessing that at some point someone decided that having a generic stick figure walking was racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, etc, etc so the city decided they would spend the money to have these lights installed. Seems like a silly way to be spending the public funds in my opinion but then I'm an old traditionalist!
This was shot in (M)anual, I did give the light a little color boost because it looked pretty faded in the original. I think it might have something to do with it being LED and the frequency they operate at. May be something the camera had a hard time catching.
Yes, this is a real photograph taken with a real camera, not a Computer Rendered Artificial Picture!
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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This is not my best protest photo but in a city where ICE is cracking down in force, I could not risk outing someone who could be put in a camp/deported just to put a more personal human element into a movement. There's a whole set of photos like that you can refer to if you really want. I'm not posting this because it's a good photo (it isn't) I'm posting this because it's a reminder that we all have a choice to say no to corruption and to say yes to human rights. We must do these both simultaneously and with every molecule in our body.
I wanted to talk a little bit about what is happening in America right now. If you did not already know, there have been even more for profit concentration camps set up for people who have come here fleeing persecution, seeking a better life. This is an abomination paid for by our tax dollars and many of our politicians are invested in these camps, making money to inevitably fund their next campaigns and the viciousness continues and profit over people continues to be the theme. We've lost our souls.
I don't know how to be more hopeful. The good people in this country, the 70% of us are being held hostage against our wills by a hostile treasonous fascist who literally doesn't even know they didn't have airports back in 1776, an idiot who couldn't pass preschool and yet, the fact that he is a serial rapist and a treasonous coward is even worse. He is an unforgivable murderer. If he truly represents America, all I have left instead of my patriotism is true horror for what this country has become.
These deaths are on our hands. Their blood is on our consciousness. It is a gift to receive an immigrant. And all these people who are pro death camps all happen to call themselves "pro life" It's laughable. They just merely want to control women's bodies.
Every day, I wake up a little more hopeless and helpless, I have to be honest. Over the last three years, I've been to protests downtown, in airports, I've called congresspeople in multiple states, donated money to progressives, signed too many petitions to count, done phone banking, and tried to be a genuinely kind person to all in my every day interactions.
Above all is the narrative stream in my mind, is the kindness enough? Is it? I don't know. I really don't know. Is kindness greater than greed, greater than all the blood money? Is it? Because people have been protesting since the 1960s for basic human rights, for an end to racial discrimination and for universal healthcare, for equal rights among the sexes and for the LGBTQ community, for an end to war and look where we are right now. It's hard to believe that anything any of us non billionaires do make a difference.
But I do know this and I believe this...they want us to be as complacent as possible, to get us numbed with constant breaking news, to gaslight us into believe that when Trump says he'd collude again that's totally fine and not surprising at all. They want us to stay at home, do nothing, turn on the tv, have a pint of whiskey to numb our pain-that sort of thing. That's what they are banking on. Whatever you do, live as a light in the darkness. If it makes no difference in the grand scheme, at least you tried.
But, I bet it will make a difference to someone.
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A chair is a very intimate index@of a human body. A sofa takes it further by suggesting a dialogue, an interaction. The piece of furniture that starts off witth inequality is particularly embarassing ;)
The photo is about some people who are traveling to somewhere by train. Here we can see some children who are not able to buy tickets and they are traveling by train sitting on the roof of the train and rest of the people who could buy tickets, they are inside the compartment.
Peaceful Pakistan
In the recent years Pakistan has become more and more famous for its unstable political and disastrous economical situation, for terrorism, inequality or discrimination i.e. against minorities. Nevertheless Pakistan is still one of the most beautiful and underestimated countries I have ever visited. I can ensure that not everyone in Pakistan is a terrorist or extremist nor is the country full of extremism or hatespeeches – as media illustrates or simplifies sometimes. The average Pakistani is a friendly person with whom you would like to talk and maybe drink a cup of Chai. The people I met were open minded and gave me always the opportunity to speak about problems and their daily life experiences. Pakistan has a lot of potential to grew, develop and prosper but there are still many problems to face, especially corruption or greedy politicians who do not care about their own nation but their moneybags.
I had a great time visiting the natural diversities of Pakistans landscape although I could not visit the Northern Areas of Pakistan like Karakoram or the Himalaya nor Balochistan in the West at the Irianian boarder. InshAllah the future will allow me to do so ;-)
Hereby some peaceful and personal impressions from my latest Pakistan trip in winter 2014/2015
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This car, combining a passenger section and a baggage area, provided a link between Louisbourg and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. It is one of the oldest existing combine cars. On the passenger side, work carried out in 2001 has restored the vehicle to what is believed to have been its original appearance in 1894. The car has been through many changes over the years. Some parts of the vehicles are “windows to the past”: they have voluntarily been left unrestored to illustrate the various conditions and paint styles that have marked the vehicle’s history.
This car was used by Marconi in his 1901 trip to carry out long-distance radio transmission tests. Another interesting feature is the interior layout: two passenger sections separated by a section for the conductor, evidence that the car was originally designed or built for an American company practicing racial discrimination. Such cars, built for the segregationist American market, are more often known by their nickname: "Jim Crow Cars".
Rhodes, Curry & Co. began producing cars after acquiring James Harris & Co. in St. John, New Brunswick, in 1893. Production was moved to Amherst the same year. At the time, Rhodes, Curry & Co. was a manufacturer of wood products seeking to diversify its output. The company’s clients included almost all of Canada’s railway companies, and Rhodes, Curry & Co. rivalled Crossen of Cobourg, Ontario, as Canada’s largest manufacturer of wooden rolling stock. A new firm, the Canadian Car & Foundry Co., was the product of a 1909 merger carried out by Nathaniel Curry between Rhodes Curry, Dominion Car & Foundry and the Canada Car Co. in Montreal.
All the information used with the pictures was taken from information at the Canadian Railway Museum Site.
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The “I’m Tired” Project of Stork and the Beanstalk utilizes photography, the human body and written words as a tools highlight the lasting impact of everyday micro-aggressions, assumptions & stereotypes and pull back the layers of discrimination to reveal thoughts and feelings that aren’t usually voiced through fear of backlash and lack of being relatable.
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